EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming Exhibitions at Prospect Gallery:
Winter Garden, Ricardo Moody
RICARDO MOODY
FestivalSouth Presenting Artist
Wander Over Yonder
May 1 - June 30, 2025
Fridays and Saturdays, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Ricardo Moody, born in Orlando, Fla., in 1977, is a self-taught artist who earned a Bachelor of Arts in graphic design from the Art Institute of Colorado in 2004. His work is characterized by expressive and vivid colors and explores themes of human connection to objects and places.
Moody has painted murals throughout Hattiesburg, Miss., and his work can be seen across the Southeastern United States. He had a year-long exhibition on the Atlanta BeltLine in 2018 and 2021. He has exhibited with the Colorado Pastel Society, and participated in the "Paper Fools: Works on Paper" group show in Long Beach, Miss., and most recently, the 2023 National Juried Painting Exhibition at The University of Southern Mississippi.
Moody is represented by the Caron Gallery in Laurel and Tupelo, Miss. His work is also featured at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Southern Indiana. He was interviewed for an Arts and Culture spotlight on VSCO and was a featured artist on HGTV's "Home Town," Season 7, Episode 8. Currently, he serves as an art teacher at Presbyterian Christian High School and works out of his home studio in Hattiesburg.
Gin and Outbuilding, William Dunlap
WILLIAM DUNLAP
Recent Works
August 22 - September 28, 2025
William is a painter, writer, arts advocate, and commentator.
The American landscape, its flora, and fauna are essential elements in Dunlap’s art, as are certain iconic Old Masters, such as Rembrandt’s series of self-portraits, which he quotes in paintings and constructions.
He calls what he does Hypothetical Realism. “The places and situations I paint aren’t real…but they could be.”
Allegory is ever present in this work. Whether on the page or in the picture plane, Dunlap expects the viewer to meet him halfway. There is nothing backward-looking about narrative art. On the contrary, one can hardly contemplate something more contemporary or edgy.
In a career spanning more than four decades, Dunlap has exhibited internationally and is included in numerous public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. He has received awards and honors from the Danforth, Rockefeller, Lila Wallace, and Warhol Foundations, as well as the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and the Mississippi Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.
Dunlap, (University Press of Mississippi, 2006) with essays by Rick Gruber and Julia Reed, remains a definitive book of the artist’s work. Short Mean Fiction - Words and Pictures (Nautilus Press, 2016) is Dunlap’s initial foray into literary fiction with stories drawn from decades of sketchbooks accompanied by reproductions of original drawings.
William Dunlap maintains studios in Coral Gables, Fla.; McLean, Va.; and Mathiston, Miss., and can be contacted through his website.
Chick, Ed McGowin
ED MCGOWIN
One Person, Five Differing Personas
August 22 - September 28, 2025
Ed McGowin is an internationally recognized multi-media artist who has participated in more than 91 in-person exhibits and 400 group exhibits across six continents.
In 1969, he had his name changed legally twelve times in the Washington, D.C., court system, and he continues to make art for these 12 personas. His work is in the permanent collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among many others.
McGowin has created more than 20 public commissions, with his most recent being a commission by the Palm Beach, Fla., symphony to create 10 paintings to be projected during the presentation of “The Shoe Bird,” a composition by Mississippi composer Samuel Jones, based on a book by Eudora Welty.
McGowin, from Hattiesburg, Miss., is a Professor Emeritus at the State University of NY. He lives and works in New York City and Miami, Fla.
Avocado Economy, William Baggett
WILLIAM BAGGETT
Paintings and Prints
November 1 - December 13, 2025
William Baggett attended public schools in Nashville, Tenn., before earning degrees in art and design from Auburn University. He taught in university art and design programs for 39 years, prior to retiring in 2010 and returning to his studio endeavors on a full-time basis.
Baggett's career in academics enabled him to develop an independent approach to his creative work and consequently to build a reputation, outside the conventional art establishment. He retired as Professor Emeritus of Art and Design at The University of Southern Mississippi.
Baggett’s paintings and printmaking works are included in collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. He worked directly with both French and American art publishers to personally execute fifteen original print editions in ateliers in Paris and New York from 1980 to 1995. The U.S. Information Agency has included his work in the U.S. Embassies Overseas Collection.
From 1992 to 2005 the majority of his creative output was dedicated to mural painting on a monumental scale for public spaces in Mississippi and Alabama. Since 2006, he has returned to creating modestly scaled works (oil on panel), more suitable to the easel. He and his wife Lynne, both maintain studios in Mississippi and Maine.
In 2014, the Mississippi Arts Commission recognized Baggett for his achievements with a Governor's Award in Visual Art. In 2016, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters awarded Baggett, the Noel Polk Lifetime Achievement Award.
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